Dorothy Edith Smith was a British-born Canadian ethnographer,feminist studies scholar,sociologist,and writer with research interests in a variety of disciplines. These include women's studies,feminist theory,psychology,and educational studies. Smith was also involved in certain subfields of sociology,such as the sociology of knowledge,family studies,and methodology. She founded the sociological sub-disciplines of feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography.
Marxist feminism is a philosophical variant of feminism that incorporates and extends Marxist theory. Marxist feminism analyzes the ways in which women are exploited through capitalism and the individual ownership of private property. According to Marxist feminists,women's liberation can only be achieved by dismantling the capitalist systems in which they contend much of women's labor is uncompensated. Marxist feminists extend traditional Marxist analysis by applying it to unpaid domestic labor and sex relations.
Feminist sociology is an interdisciplinary exploration of gender and power throughout society. Here,it uses conflict theory and theoretical perspectives to observe gender in its relation to power,both at the level of face-to-face interaction and reflexivity within social structures at large. Focuses include sexual orientation,race,economic status,and nationality.
May Elias Ziadeh was a Palestinian-Lebanese Maronite poet,essayist,and translator,who wrote many different works both in Arabic and in French.
Smadar Lavie is a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California Davis,and a Mizrahi anthropologist,author,and activist. She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt,Israel and Palestine,emphasizing issues of race,gender and religion. She received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (1989).
Sara Ahmed is a British-Australian writer and scholar whose area of study includes the intersection of feminist theory,lesbian feminism,queer theory,affect theory,critical race theory and postcolonialism. Her foundational work,The Cultural Politics of Emotion,in which she explores the social dimension and circulation of emotions,is recognized as a foundational text in the nascent field of affect theory.
Vron Ware is a British academic and visiting professor at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously a Professor at Kingston University,editor of Searchlight magazine from 1981 to 1983,and worked as a freelance journalist until 1987,when she co-founded the Women's Design Service. She taught cultural geography at the University of Greenwich from 1992 to 1999,sociology and gender studies at Yale University from 1999 to 2005,and was senior research fellow at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the Open University from 2008 to 2014.
Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is primarily known for her ethnographic work on post-Communist Bulgaria as well as being a contributor to the field of postsocialist gender studies. She was critical of the role of Western feminist nongovernmental organizations doing work among East European women in the 1990s. She has also examined the shifting gender relations of Muslim minorities after Communist rule,the intersections of Islamic beliefs and practices with the ideological remains of Marxism–Leninism,communist nostalgia,the legacies of Marxist feminism,and the intellectual history of utopianism.
Burhan Ghalioun is a French-Syrian professor of sociology at the Universitéde Paris III Sorbonne University in Paris,and the first chairman of the Syrian opposition Transitional National Council (SNC). He was named chairman on 29 August 2011. His chairmanship was criticized for his perceived closeness to the Muslim Brotherhood,his early reluctance to arm opposition forces,and what opponents called the autocratic nature of his leadership. On 17 May 2012,feeling he had become an increasingly divisive figure for the council,Ghalioun resigned.
Margunn Bjørnholt is a Norwegian sociologist and economist. She is a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and a professor of sociology at the University of Bergen. Her research has focused on financial institutions,management and working life and later on gender equality,migration and violence. She has also worked as a consultant,a civil servant,served as an expert to the European Commission and been president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.
Women migrant workers from developing countries engage in paid employment in countries where they are not citizens. While women have traditionally been considered companions to their husbands in the migratory process,most adult migrant women today are employed in their own right. In 2017,of the 168 million migrant workers,over 68 million were women. The increase in proportion of women migrant workers since the early twentieth century is often referred to as the "feminization of migration".
Minoo Moallem is an Iranian-born American educator,author,and scholar. She is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Her academic specialties are transnational and postcolonial feminist studies,religious nationalism and transnationalism,consumer culture,immigration and diaspora studies,Middle Eastern Studies and Iranian films,cultural politics. She is best known for her work on Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism as byproducts of colonial modernity and modernization of patriarchies.
AbdelRahman Mansour is an internet activist,journalist and human rights defender. In 2011,he came up with the idea of turning Egypt's National Police Day on 25 January into a Facebook event,"Revolution of the Egyptian People",sparking the online campaign for pro-democracy demonstrations that later snowballed into a popular uprising.
Reproductive labor or work is often associated with care giving and domestic housework roles including cleaning,cooking,child care,and the unpaid domestic labor force. The term has taken on a role in feminist philosophy and discourse as a way of calling attention to how women in particular are assigned to the domestic sphere,where the labor is reproductive and thus uncompensated and unrecognized in a capitalist system. These theories have evolved as a parallel of histories focusing on the entrance of women into the labor force in the 1970s,providing an intersectionalist approach that recognizes that women have been a part of the labor force since before their incorporation into mainstream industry if reproductive labor is considered.
Homonationalism is the favorable association between a nationalist ideology and LGBT people or their rights.
Mary Romero is an American sociologist. She is Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University,with affiliations in African and African American Studies,Women and Gender Studies,and Asian Pacific American Studies. Before her arrival at ASU in 1995,she taught at University of Oregon,San Francisco State University,and University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Professor Romero holds a bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in Spanish from Regis College in Denver,Colorado. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado. In 2019,she served as the 110th President of the American Sociological Association.
Femonationalism,sometimes known as feminationalism,is the association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas,especially when driven by xenophobic motivations.
Corey Lee Wrenn is an American sociologist specializing in human-animal studies,the sociology of the animal rights movement,ecofeminism,and vegan studies. She is presently a lecturer in the School of Social Policy,Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent.
Lisa Hajjar is an American sociologist. She is a professor and department chair at the University of California,Santa Barbara sociology department,and a co-editor and contributor at the online magazine Jadaliyya.
Jennifer Lyle Morgan is an American historian of United States history,focusing on 16th and 17th century African-American history and the development of slavery in the United States through the lens of gender. She is a professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.
